uptown: nasty women/bad hombres

El Museo’s UPTOWN: nasty women/bad hombres presents the work of artists engaging with the legacies of sexism, racism, homophobia, the power of the media, and violence in various ways. In many cases, the artists explore these issues by evoking poetry, symbolism, and metaphor or exploring particular forms of artistic practice associated with rupture or bearing witness as a form of social protest. Some invoke gendered or radical forms of art making for their purposes. Collage, documentary photography, poetic narratives, sculpture, working with found objects or materials and animation are all methods enlisted by these artists to create works that deal with various timely social and political issues.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.